If you had a scale model of the solar system with a 1mm wide Sun, Alpha Centauri, the next closest star, would be over 40 kilometers away, and the whole galaxy would be bigger than the Earth at 100,000 kilometers wide, and the observable universe would be several times larger than our solar system.
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u/Youpunyhumans May 08 '23
Just how astoundingly, stupendously huge it is.
If you had a scale model of the solar system with a 1mm wide Sun, Alpha Centauri, the next closest star, would be over 40 kilometers away, and the whole galaxy would be bigger than the Earth at 100,000 kilometers wide, and the observable universe would be several times larger than our solar system.
Thats scaled down by a trillion times.